Deep dives into modern screenwriting, visual storytelling, and how AI is reshaping the creative process.
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Five uses of AI in documentary ranked by risk, what the Archival Producers Alliance asks for, an AI cue sheet, on-screen labels, YouTube and EU AI Act rules, and why keeping one face per reconstructed person is an honesty tool.
AI in Documentaries: How to Use Reconstructions Without Losing Trust
Subject, sources, treatment, V.O. script, shot list, reference sheets, reconstruction shots, narration, edit and disclosure: the full workflow for an AI documentary that holds up, with a long section on keeping the same face on a witness across every shot and every decade.
How to Make a Documentary with AI: From Sourced Script to Finished Film
Write narration for the ear, know when to stay silent, time every line to picture before you board it, pick one narrator voice for a whole series, then record a human or generate the voice without cloning anyone. Worked through on The Last Keeper, a lighthouse reconstruction made in ScreenWeaver.
AI Documentary Narration: How to Get a Voice-Over That Sounds Like a Real Narrator
What YouTube's inauthentic content policy really says, why topic-to-video tools put a history channel at risk, and a production method that counts as original work: sourced research, narration you wrote, a recurring character with the same face in every episode, a storyboard, an anachronism checklist and honest labels.
How to Make AI History Documentaries for YouTube That Stay Monetized
Script, turnaround sheet, a materials and lighting plate, grey layout storyboard, shot-by-shot generation: the full method for a studio-quality 3D animation look with AI, shown on a real five-shot scene from grey board to final frame, with a long section on keeping the same character in every shot.
How to Make 3D Animation With AI: The Method (+ Real Example)
Reference sheet, a plate for plasticine and fingerprints, a miniature set, boards, one small action per shot, then the step most guides skip: retiming the motion to 12 poses per second, like real stop motion. The full method for AI claymation, shown on Bertie, an original clay mole baker, and on one real shot in three takes, including the one we got wrong.
How to Make AI Claymation: The Method (+ Real Example)
Script with its sounds, reference sheets for the victim and the creature, grey previz storyboard, then many empty shots and a few short threat shots that never show the whole monster: the full method for AI horror that actually scares, shown on a real six-shot scene from grey board to final frame, with a long section on keeping faces, creatures and blood consistent from shot to shot.
How to Make AI Horror Videos: The Method (+ Real Example)
A one-page series bible, one model sheet per character, a flat-colour style plate, a grey storyboard, then every shot generated with the sheet attached: the full method for making a 2D cartoon with AI, shown on Mila's Delivery, six shots and 12 seconds, with a long chapter on keeping a character on model in every shot.
How to Make an AI Cartoon: The Method (+ Real Example)